One particularly well-known Shakespearean heroine once lamented, "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
I have been asked a few times what the name "Zarine" means. Quite simply, I got it from a character in a book. A friend introduced me to this fantasy series by the late Robert Jordan (which incidentally was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), The Wheel of Time. The book series (11 published; 1 more book to be finished by an appointed author) itself was very immense in scope and I stopped reading sometime after the fourth book. But by then, I’ve already been taken by the name of one of the female characters Faile (pronounced as Fah-eel).
Her true name was Zarine Bashere. But she chose to change it because "Zarine" means "a langorous girl who lays on a pillow and eats grapes all day." Being the fierce woman that she is, she’s a hunter of the horn and is very good with knives, she decided that the name doesn’t suit her and changed it to Faile (which literally means The Falcon).
Now what’s the hoopla about these names? I’ve created a new blog, and I’m using the other name there. I realized that maintaining one blog is quite a work in itself but I’ve always wanted to set categories for my posts and I had to jump to another platform to get it. Which doesn’t mean I’m abandoning this site. I’m seeing it as a way of "grouping." I usually post thoughts about nonrecent stuff - old movies, old music, old books - that I just recently discovered or am rediscovering. From this time on, my other site will be the home of those, including my more serious, introspective subjects. Let this be my fun blog, where only things that have current, and possibly general, relevance will be featured.
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